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Quotes About Alibi

You know, at parties, people always ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi!
~ Emo Philips
Being dead is a pretty good alibi for anyone who's in trouble with the law, but in Nazi Germany it was an existential hazard.
~ Philip Kerr
I wouldn't say we lived in a tough neighborhood, but when I was growing up we still called a story with a happy ending an alibi.
~ Philip Kerr
If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband's murder.
~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo
throw up his hands and say, 'Who, me? I had nothing to do with it.'
~ Donna Tartt
My idea is that Miss Vane didn't do it, said Wimsey. I dare say that's an idea which has already occurred to you, but with the weight of my great mind behind it, no doubt it strikes the imagination more forcibly.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
And if you want to pop off for a quick one yourself later on," said Ford, "we can always cover for you in return.
~ Douglas Adams
No innocent person ever has an alibi.
~ Agatha Christie
Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.
~ Agatha Christie
Already, at twenty-three minutes to one, Ratchett was dead—" "And it was his murderer speaking!" finished M. Bouc impressively. Poirot
~ Agatha Christie
One may have a crime without a murderer, but for two crimes it is essential to have two bodies." -- Hercule Poirot
~ Agatha Christie
I think it was just before half past ten.
~ Agatha Christie
Murder is easy,if no one suspects you
~ AgathaChristie
Sandra left at five. I don't know if anyone else was around. I'll have to check." Not the kind of answer we like to hear.
~ Alan Jacobson
A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
~ Raymond Chandler
Some Other Dude Did It
~ Karin Slaughter
A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
~ Raymond Chandler
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
~ Will Rogers
'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
~ Jerry Orbach
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
~ Will Rogers
People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.
~ Emo Philips
Of course, if you ask, nobody was there when they torched the churches.
~ Javier Cercas
The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....
~ Edmund Crispin
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.
~ Albert Camus